Exhibitions - CityScape Community ArtSpace

North Van Arts has operated this City-owned facility since 2001, featuring group-based, themed exhibitions. The mission of CityScape Community ArtSpace is “to celebrate and promote art and artists through quality experiences in a unique and inviting gallery space, and to create an inclusive environment which enriches and encourages interaction in the community”.

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July 26 – September 7 Exhibition Opening: Thursday, July 25 Creativescape: Stitched Photo Collage with Amelia Guimarin, September 5

Celebrating 50 years of North Van Arts as well as art and community in North Vancouver. Exhibiting artists Alexandra Phillips, Amelia Guimarin, Amy Liebenberg, Bev Ellis, Biliana Velkova, Grace Gordon-Collins, Mehran Modarres-Sadeghi, and Taehoon Kim considered significant events, experiences, and influences that have helped shape them as artists in North Vancouver and beyond.

Art Rental Show

September 20 – October 12 A semi-annual salon-style exhibition of artworks from the Art Rental collection. All artwork was available for rent and sale right off the gallery walls!

Pushing Boundaries

October 10 – November 16 Exhibition Opening: Thursday, October 9 This biennial group exhibition showcased and celebrated contemporary Indigenous artists.

Indigenous cultures across North America use blankets in symbolic ways throughout their communities. These artists referenced the narratives rooted in their own nations and relate them back to pattern, textile, shape, form, or material. The blanket metaphor represents a way that we can use the deep connections of spirit while pushing a contemporary perspective on Indigenous ways of knowing.

James (Nexw’Kalus-Xwalacktun) Harry, guest curator Participating artists: Cheximiya Allison Burns Joseph, Krystle Coughlin, Ocean Hyland, Atheana Picha, Michelle Sound, Manuel Axel Strain, Xwalacktun, Richard Heikkilä-Sawan, and Tiyaltelwet Melanie Rivers.

Freedom Flag, Richard Heikkilä-Sawan (centre) Didn’t make Cents, Xwalacktun (right)

Anonymous Art Show

November 22 – December 18 Preview Week: November 22 - 26 Opening Reception and Sale Extravaganza: Thursday, November 28 The 15th Annual Anonymous Art Show featured over 600 works of art by 284 regional artists, emerging to established, young and young at heart, a true reflection of our community. This year we tested a preview week so the community could see the show before sales began and received a lot of positive feedback. Throughout the sale, 228 pieces were purchased, bringing in $22,800: $10,850 going to artists and $11,950 to our organization. Thanks to those artists who donated their 50% back to North Van Arts. As our primary annual fundraiser, the money raised is critical to help us offset the costs of exhibitions and arts education so we can keep participation fees low or free.

Art Rental Show

January 17 - February 15 Opening Reception: Thursday, January 16 A salon-style show featuring 200 new artworks added to the Art Rental collection. Created using an impressive range of media – painting in oil, acrylic, watercolour, prints – linocut, lithograph, woodcut, photography, and mixed media, more than 150 artists shared their expressions of natural and urban landscapes, seascapes, abstract, floral – and more! Rent and buy works right off the gallery walls.

Kintsugi, Aurelia Bizouard

?What Matters!

February 21 – March 21 Exhibition Opening: Thursday, February 20 In an art world where digital technology is becoming more prevalent as a means to produce work, ?What Matters! explored art creation with fundamental materials, glass, wood, and wool, taking a closer look at the ritualized, compulsive action of making.

Featuring works by Catherine Tableau, Aurelia Bizouard, and Chantal Cardinal.

Time Lines #29, Catherine Tableau

Textures 2, Chantal Cardinal

On March 17, CityScape Community ArtSpace closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the exhibition was moved online.